Preparing Biological Data for Meaningful Analysis

Are you curious about what a career as a bioinformatics technician is like? In this virtual career simulation, explore how bioinformatics technicians prepare, process, and visualize biological data to support analysis and interpretation. About this scenario:  This simulation features fictional characters, a fictional company, and an imagined project. The dataset, however, is based on 2 real-world datasets that have been adapted for teaching purposes. You can explore the datasets that informed this simulation in the references below.

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References

Cao, L., Huang, C., Zhou, D. C., Hu, Y., Lih, T. M., Savage, S. R., ... & Zhao, G. (2021). Proteogenomic characterization of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Cell, 184(19), 5031–5052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.023 Sinclair, J., & Timms, J. F. (2011). Quantitative profiling of serum samples using TMT protein labelling, fractionation and LC–MS/MS. Methods, 54(4), 361–369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.03.004

Topics

  • bioinformatics technician
  • CareerXplorer
  • career simulation
  • proteomics
  • pancreatic cancer
  • biological data
  • volcano plot
  • p-value
  • FDR
  • mass spectrometer
  • data cleaning
  • filtering
  • spreadsheet